The Simpsons (TV Series) Throw Grampa from the Dane (2018) User Reviews

Another travelogue episode

[bfleury · 7/10 · 14 May 2018]

Is is just me or are The Simpsons now going to do a country by country travel channel? This would be the fourth or fifth so far. I have never visited Copenhagen, but I have spent time in Scandinavia. I have enjoyed both Finland and Norway and the lack of poverty is striking.

Normal Simpsons humor and quips. I do have one complaint. Why do they have to propagate the lie that Nordic countries are somehow suffering due to generous social benefits? Americans are fed this pap all the time when, in fact, we need a lot more Socialist policies and programs in this country.

They're shoveling against the tide, however, younger people know that unbridled Capitalism is destroying the United States.

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[Edvis-1997 · 7/10 · 29 December 2018]

Well good commercial for Denmark and basically that's all? Didn't see anything more interesting.

Great Dane

[safenoe · 7/10 · 13 April 2023]

Not a bad episode of The Simpsons, although it kind of came across as a bit too pro-forma and was more gentle in its depiction of a foreign culture, compared to the one where the Simpsons visited Japan in Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo, released nearly 20 years before Throw Grampa from the Dane.

Anyway, the Danish stereotypes were kind of funny, although I wonder if they got things mixed up (for example the build your own furniture) with Sweden but maybe to the Simpsons writers they're kind of all the same.

The idea of state medical care was something too good to pass up, and at least Grampa got some resolution.

Once upon a time, The Simpsons was the funniest, cleverest show on TV

[JetSetThomas · 14 May 2018]

....and that was at least 20 years ago. During "Throw Grampa From the Dane" I chuckled once. Once. The episode may appeal to the "America sucks, Trump sucks, socialism is great" crowd, seeing as that's basically all it was until that half-assed one-liner at the very end, which, I'm guessing the target audience either missed or won't remember. Sorry, Mr. Groening but The Simpsons ain't what it used to be, and tonight's propaganda piece was, for lack of a better term, the polar opposite of "groin-grabbingly good".

Simpsons, get your facts in order

[hanna_kaasinen · 6/10 · 27 June 2021]

I'm just mad they got the happiest country in the world wrong 😂

Great episode.

[tyuhgtt · 10/10 · 15 August 2018]

The Simpsons travel to Denmark for Grampa's health. But in doing so, they found Denmark as a new home.

Splendid!

[tykepoolap · 10/10 · 16 August 2018]

Due to Denmark's health care system, the Simpsons travel to Denmark for Grandpa's medical care. But they got more than what they expected. The Simpsons fell in love with Denmark, and in doing so, decided to settle there. But is it really worth it?

Another Far Left episodo

[cyroskristi · 3/10 · 23 August 2019]

The last few seasons not only are not funny but it's like soviet union and communist china produces them !

Propaganda against socialism

[jsuknewsofficial · 1/10 · 26 August 2018]

At a time when we in the UK are fighting to stop the privatization of our NHS, a plot involving scamming free health care systems is not really enjoyable to me, but that doesn't stop here. They mock just about every nice socialist aspect of Denmark and not in any real biting satire way. Made for republican Fox viewers to get a few cheap laughs and cheer on the fact that the USA doesnt have free health care for all. Also the plot twist at the end was lame and annoying. A bad episode. I can take shots at the cultures and things I like, if they are funny. The jokes here aren't and just serve as a machine for pro conservatism.